Audible NMR Podcast

Synesthesia: Audible Fragrances

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:28:06 -0600

Fresh on the heels of presenting a poster on Audible NMR at the AAAS meeting in Chicago, here’s my entry for audible fragrances. Following the same protocols I used to create other audible NMR spectra, I simply used commercially available fragrances as samples. So now you can listen to smells!

The spectrum/audio at the left is essential oil from the flower lily of the valley, which should be blooming in about two or thre months.

The Amino Acids

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:08:44 -0600

Most of the chemistry conducted by living organisms is performed by proteins, which are long chains of amino acids strung together. (See my zine Protein Structure elsewhere on this site.) There are 20 standard amino acids in proteins, making this set rather like Nature’s alphabet, so it was natural to take the audible NMR spectra of all 20 of them.

The color of each H atom corresponds to its peak in the spectrum, its key on the keyboard, and its note on the musical scale.

Audible Testosterone

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:29:46 -0500

Here we have the audible NMR spectrum of an emotionally-charged molecule: testosterone

Audible Estrogen

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:27:15 -0500

Here we have the audible NMR spectrum of an emotionally-charged molecule: estrogen (beta-17-estradiol).